This is so true…but it is not only for this building…it is any huge building coming up…and there are loads of them in the Emirates. The construction workers are the most hard working, and work in the most difficult conditions day and night…but no one cares..the living conditions are just appalling…it is so sad.
People look at Dubai and say “WOW”, but there is nothing wow abt it.
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BTW as of yesterday this building is officaially called ‘BURJ KHALIFA’ not burj dubai as abudhabi sheikh bought it!
Allah ka khaiiirr kareinnnn i live here!
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The workers who worked for countless days & nights, turning a dream into relality were paid as little as £3 a day. Compare the amount of the hard work they did, it equals to “peanuts”.
UAE days are gone and rightly so. They will soon be bankrupt and i hope it happens asap. Afterall, these Arabs think they are from another Planet and surely they should pay for the pain they have caused to such workers. Pathetic people.
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The Empire state building was completed during the recession so..it remains a monument..good for dubai
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Nearly all major skyscrapers in the world are associated with crises-
Empire State Building: the Great Depression;
Sears Tower: the Oil Crisis;
PETRONAS Towers: the Asian Financial Crisis;
Shanghai World Financial Centre: the Asian Financial Crisis;
Burj Khalifa: the Global Financial Crisis.
Coincident? Or something else?
^ Hey Merk…
Y’all forgot the Eiffel Tower?
what crisis caused it to be erected…
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Talk about penis envy.
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The bldg was started when Dubai was a darling of everyone as a model in middle east for trying to become a business and logistics hub for the region. It would be worse if they did not complete it.
Workers are abused, the sad thing is they would rather take the 4.76 and be away from family and live like cattle because they did not have something to earn a good living in their homelands.
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Abu Dhabi is poised to overtake Dubai.
Abu Dhabi did smart investments in bringing American Universities to open campuses there, getting the Lourve and Guggenheim museums to open wings there, F1 Racing, etc. They want to make Abu Dhabi a center of education, culture, arts, etc.
While Dubai went on becoming a Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi is trying to make it self a Boston.
Looks like Abu Dhabi did the smart thing.
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modern day pyramid by modern day pharaoh.
Yeah and the highest mosque in the tower is just above 15 floors from a night club.
how marvelous!!!
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Them arabs had to have the world’s biggest erection. Mission accomplished, aint no africans beating this one. :k:
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.. Love ittt!!!
so does my brother.. THOUGH we are talking something that is happening more often now a days!!
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.. Will have to look that up;)…Happy new year sweets 
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So much negativities in this thread 
Ghalib said it for the occasion:
Masjid ke Zair-e-Saaya, Ik Ghar Bana Lia Hai
Wo Banda-e-Kameena, Hamsaya-e-Khuda Hai..
:sad: